UK lighting LED maker Plessey introduces its first lighting module, which includes ‘Stellar’ beam-forming technology to reduce height, to 5.6mm.

Read full article: Plessey squeezes 3,000 lm and optics into 5.6mm thick module

110 years ago an inventor demo-ed a 200 ton electrically powered machine which could simulate the sounds of woodwind orchestral instruments such as the flute, clarinet and bassoon. It could also reproduce the sound of the cello. It contained 145 ac generators, one for each tone. The machine used tonewheels to generate musical sounds by …

Read full article: Fable: The Music Machine

The Bluetooth SIG has updated its range of developer toolkits, for those looking to build mobile apps, control IoT sensors, or even create low-cost beacons…

Read full article: Bluetooth SIG devkit drops Arduino Uno for Genuino 101

Jeff Bisberg gives up IoT duties at Current, powered by GE. He takes over as CEO of horticultural LED lighting specialist Illumitex.

Enterprise Support customers now have access to a Well-Architected Review for business critical workloads. This review, delivered by an AWS Solutions Architect, provides guidance and best practices to help you design reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems in the cloud.

RS Components has signed a distribution agreement with XP Power and now stocks around 2500 product lines from the manufacturer. The XP offering available via RS consists of a broad range of AC/DC power supply products from 5W to 3000W including: ITE and medical Level VI efficiency desktop and plug-in type external power supplies; open-frame …

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Thanks to the OECD for this one – the ten European countries with the worst performance in real wage change since 2007. Greece -10.4 UK -10.4 Portugal -3.7 Italy 0.9 Czech Rep 1.1 Ireland 1.6 Spain. 2.8 Netherlands. 3.4 Denmark 4 Lithuania 4.3

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The 503HTA, designed and manufactured by Pi2Media, is an I/O shield for Raspberry Pi designed to provide “valve sound” audio for the single board computer. This HAT allows the Raspberry Pi to drive headphones from 32 – 300ohm. The on-board PCM5102A, 24-Bit at 192kHz DAC drives the single stage 6DJ8 (aka 6922) tube. 
The Class-A …

Read full article: Raspberry Pi valve amp add-on goes on sale for $159

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This furry caterpillar-like image could represent an important breakthrough in flexible semiconductors for displays and solar cells. It is a semiconductor with a double helix atomic structure, similar to that which is the basis of DNA. 
A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has discovered a double helix structure in an inorganic material. …

Read full article: German researchers show double helix in semiconductors